Brewer's: Joey

A groat; so called from Joseph Hume, M.P., who strongly recommended the coinage for the sake of paying short cab-fares, etc. (Hawkins: History of the Silver Coinage of England.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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